If you’ve been wondering about the return of Bill Moyers to PBS on Bill Moyers Journal, the answer is decidedly “yes” - it was, in fact, darned strange comparing Moyers’ interview of Jon Stewart (in which Stewart presented (and rightly so) as a forthright, sensible and intelligent observer of the news media and purveyor of [...]

Via Paul Kedrosky, David Carr’s column in the NYT on the impact that CBS hopes Katie Couric will have on the CBS Evening News. The fly in the ointment is the diminishing relevance of the network news broadcasts to younger viewers and anyone else who gets their news off the ‘net. Paul picks [...]

Meeting Om Malik was one of the genuine pleasures of mesh. As Mark said in the intro to his mesh conversation with Om (podcast available soon), Om was the first person we approached, and he accepted the invite without hesitation. With Om on board, the rest was easy.
Now Om is (mostly) leaving Business [...]

The recent California Apple case extending the protection of that state’s shield law to bloggers was hailed by the blogosphere, and in many respects I’m sure that the evaporation of that distinction between professional and amateur is a good thing. But as I listened this morning to a podcast mourning the recent dissipation of [...]

The conventional wisdom has the mainstream media reporting, editing and writing, and bloggers merely writing. Reporting and editing require resources and more intensive expertise, the argument goes, and cannot generally be done in a bathrobe and bunny slippers. Indeed, Craig Newmark of Craigslist said as much to me in an email after he [...]

Further to my recent posts on the impact that online classifieds, blogging and the like are having on the newspaper business, Editor and Publisher recaps a bloody week in the business:
In the past week or so, six of the country’s major daily newspapers have revealed plans to kill more than 350 jobs through a [...]

The news that Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is planning an online journalism project is yet another reason to believe that the internet holds the key to true democratization of information and opinion. The Guardian reported on remarks Newmark recently made at Oxford University business school:

When talk turned to the problems plaguing the U.S. news [...]

Much has been made in recent years, particularly since the introduction of Sarbanes-Oxley, of the increasing responsibility of corporate directorship. Before that, it was the steadily expanding scope of director’s statutory liability that attracted the attention of board candidates. And in each case, many doom and gloom forecasts were issued about the impact [...]

Editor and Publisher runs an account of a Columbia University panel discussion Wednesday night titled “The Changing Media Landscape, 2005.”

The discussion brought together Len Apcar, NYTimes.com editor; Jeff Gralnick, NBC special consultant and former VP of ABCNews.com; Andrea Panciera, editor of The Providence (R.I.) Journal’s ProJo.com; Craig Newmark, founder and chief customer service representative (explanation [...]

Pressure continues to build in the newspaper business. Major papers continue to search for new revenue streams as the eBays and Craigslists of the world hold newspaper circulations and classifieds down on the ground and beat them senseless. Layoffs abound - the NYT reported 500 yesterday, this the same week they announced that [...]